Corporate Advocacy Program: The best way to manage and repair your business reputation. Hiding negative complaints is only a Band-Aid. Consumers want to see how businesses take care of business. All businesses will get complaints. How those businesses take care of those complaints is what separates good businesses from bad businesses.

I have a laptop with a cracked face plate on my HP Pavilion PC. I didn't drop it, so I have no idea why it's cracking. I bought the laptop at Circuit City and bought the super duper extended "cover anything" warranty. I've been on hold for City Assure.com for 1.5 hours. I also went online to their website for a "web chat" and have been there for the same amount of time.

On webchat, although I'll get a prompt that "I'm next in line" after a few seconds I get another prompt that says "there is 1 question ahead of you." this has been going on for the last 1/2 hour.

This is extremely frustrating and I just need to get my laptop fixed. No wonder Circuit City went out of business!

Corporate Advocacy Program: The best way to manage and repair your business reputation. Hiding negative complaints is only a Band-Aid. Consumers want to see how businesses take care of business. All businesses will get complaints. How those businesses take care of those complaints is what separates good businesses from bad businesses.

AUTHOR: Zaphoid - (U.S.A.)

SUBMITTED: Sunday, January 24, 2010

POSTED: Sunday, January 24, 2010

Circuit City actually went out of business because of bad real estate investments, rapidly declining HDTV prices, bad leases on stores in bad locations, failed investment in DivX DVD technology, and laying off their most experienced salespeople to hire inexperienced minimum wagers.

That said, your warranty is fulfilled by a company called Assurant Solutions, which is a subsidiary of G.E. Your complaint is with them, not Circuit City. I'm not saying this to defend a failed company that laid me off, but so you can direct your anger and frustration where it belongs.

Corporate Advocacy Program: The best way to manage and repair your business reputation. Hiding negative complaints is only a Band-Aid. Consumers want to see how businesses take care of business. All businesses will get complaints. How those businesses take care of those complaints is what separates good businesses from bad businesses.